Babcock, Albert L.

Albert L. Babcock was born in Albany, NY in December, 1851. On September 12, 1877, Babcock married Miss Antoinette Packer, of Pontiac, Illinois. Their only child, Lewis C. Babcock, was born at Pontiac, in 1878. They arrived in Montana in 1882 and located a hardware store in Billings. Operated the Babcock & Miles Hardware. Served as Yellowstone County Commissioner from 1885 to 1889. State Senator in 1894-1898. After the Opera House on Montana Ave burned down in late September, 1906, Babcock built the Babcock Theater (opera house) and Babcock Block, on North Broadway, by December, 1907. He organized the Yellowstone National Bank. He remained president of the bank until his death on July 6th, 1918. The original Babcock, Connelly and then Foster home was moved from North 26th to Division and Broadwater on May 9, 1920. See Montana, Its story and biography, by Tom Stout, and the History of Montana, 1898.